Beater-cylinder for cleaning wool and cotton



ADDISON ARNOLD, OF WALPOLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BEATER-CYLINDER FOR CLEANING WOOL AND COTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 5,562, dated May 9, 1848.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, ADDISON ARNOLD, of lValpole, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Beaters for Separating and Cleaning Cotton, lVool, Fur, or other Stock to be Manufactured; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and accompanying drawings, letters, figures, and references thereof.

Of the above mentioned drawings, Figure l, letter A, denotes a top view; letter B, a longitudinal section of the clothing; letter O, a guard bar on opposite sides of the cylinder to protectthe clothing in case any hard substance comes in contact with it.

Fig. 2 a transverse section or end view, with the clot-hing and guards on, in the proper places.

The beater is composed of a series of wooden lags D, D, fastened to the cast iron circular head-s E, which are fixed upon a central shaft F. Every two consecutive lags are arranged with a space or air passage G, between them, and each of the heads E E has three induction air holes H, H, H, made.

through it. The outer surface of all, excepting two of the lags is covered with beater clothing A A, all of whose points B are arranged respectively in lines radiating toward the center or axis of the cylinder, on the other two lag-s I put bars of iron or steel G, to reach nearly as far as the points of the clothing from the center.

My improvement consists of wire set in leather, or other elastic substance, of much smaller size and more than twenty times as thick, as they can be used when set permanent, and for protection to these, I claim the invention of the guard bars which must break down any hard substance which may pass through the feed rolls, before it bendsl the points more than they will give back in elastic substance and come up to the proper place. rIhe teeth may be made straight, and set straight through the leather but it would require a different machine, to set them and they would amount to about the same thing. Another improvement in the cylinder is the shape of the lags, which leave the space on the outer surface larger than the other and gives the air a better chance to blow the stock from the beater. The above beater to be used in the Various kinds of machines called lappers, which receive the lstock after it has passed through a burring machine, a picker, a willow or whipping machine, and forms a sheet or lap wound on a roller, to be drawn off into the card for carding.

Practice has proved this beater to be far superior to any in use.

That I claim as my improvements, and wish to secure by Letters Patent is- The substitution of clothing made of wire set in elastic substance, in the place of permanent teeth, in combination with bars of iron or steel to protect the clothing substantially as herein described. Y

In testimony whereof I have hereto set my signature this fifth day of August, A. D.. 184:7.

ADDISON ARNOLD [L. s] `Witnesses I-IanLow LAWRENCE,

E. W. OLAP. 

